Farewell to the Horse
The Final Century of Our Relationship
«A remarkably nimble, creative thinker . . . Raulff's text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental . . . A brilliant examination of our complicated and violently unilateral relationship with Equus caballus . . . Though this book is about horses, it is just as much about thinking as a devotional act.»
C. E. Morgan, New York Times Book Review
A magical, wise and beguiling history of all the ways in which our world has been made by the horse. Les mer
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A magical, wise and beguiling history of all the ways in which our world has been made by the horse.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 480
- ISBN
- 9780141983172
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«A remarkably nimble, creative thinker . . . Raulff's text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental . . . A brilliant examination of our complicated and violently unilateral relationship with Equus caballus . . . Though this book is about horses, it is just as much about thinking as a devotional act.»
C. E. Morgan, New York Times Book Review
«This is not the Pony Club Manual or a trot through the more familiar sights of equestrian art history; it's Kafka, Aby Warburg, Tolstoy, psychoanalytic theory, Nietzsche and bleak monochrome photos in the style of Sebald. This epic enterprise is relieved by Raulff's spare, vivid style and deep learning»
Susannah Forrest, Literary Review
«A brilliant, entertaining tour-de-force»
Die Zeit
«Amazing insights sweep through the book - an entrancing history packed with stories»
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
«Great cultural history»
Der Tagesspiegel
«Ulrich Raulff is a wonderful storyteller»
Südwestrundfunk
«A fabulous book»
Uli Hufen
«An exciting and entertaining ride through various landscapes»
Harry Nutt
«Strange and fascinating . . . A sweeping cultural history, more kaleidoscopic than totale, as bibliographical as it is historical . . . Farewell to the Horse is a whirlwind that seems capable of drawing into its vortex almost anyone who ever thought of a horse.»
Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Review of Books
«Sex, violence and 6,000 years of horse power... an elegy to the way horses have galloped through our culture'»
Melanie Reid, The Times
«A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world... lyrical and creative...I very much enjoyed it. Some of the scenes in it will stay with me for a long time to come»
James Rebanks
«Intellectual and passionate ... Raulff's material is gloriously diverse ... [a] refined and ambitious book»
The Sunday Times
«It becomes evident within three paragraphs that you have never read a book like it ... his writerly pace is exhilarating»
Kate Kellaway, Observer